One of jazz's finest clarinetists, Artie Shaw never seemed fully satisfied with his musical life, constantly breaking up successful bands and running away from success. While Count Basie and Duke ...
The trumpet player has performed with traditional jazz ensembles like the Artie Shaw Orchestra, the Woody Herman Orchestra, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and the Glenn Miller Orchestra. And he was the ...
In 1978 Greg formed his group Channel One which was a favorite in the New England area and from there had the opportunity to play tenor sax with the revived Artie Shaw Orchestra under leadership ...
This weekend, he's performing not one, but two concertos with the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. One is the world premiere of a new work written for him by New Zealander Ross Harris, the other is a ...
He toured twice with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, the Glenn Miller Orchestra in Japan and on the East Coast, the Artie Shaw Orchestra and with Woody Herman. Schantz also was artistic director of ...
Even Armstrong, whose work with his Hot Five and Hot Seven Bands had been so innovative in the 20s, began working with an orchestra ... only by clarinetist Artie Shaw, who scored such a hit ...